Xcel Energy Xcel Energy has abandoned plans to have Colorado ratepayers pay for expensive dinners and luxury hotel stays for its employees.

WASHINGTON - What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy and center of finance? Or perhaps Titusville, Pa.

Oilfield services company Smith International Inc. said Monday it sold 28 million new shares of stock at $26.50 per share.

Husky Energy Inc said it discovered additional oil resources in the White Rose area located off Canadaa s East Coast.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP said Monday that it expects to pay out an annual cash dividend of $4.40 per unit in 2010, up from $4.20 in 2009.

An Ohio electric company has bought the rights to an abandoned limestone mine so it can pump the cavern full of compressed air and let it out to generate power during peak-use times.

Kissimmee Utility Authority today announced the winners of its 16th annual student calendar art contest.

Open to Osceola County students in kindergarten through fifth grade, the contest is designed to promote energy conservation.

This year, a total of 1,327 entries were received from 21 Osceola County elementary schools, including public, private and charter schools. KUA also received entries from nearly three dozen homeschooled students.

Lenny Henry, Rachel Weisz and Juliet Stevenson are among the actors vying for a prestigious Evening Standard Theatre Award, at the ceremony which celebrates the cream of the London stage.

PPL Electric Utilities announced a project Friday to improve electric service for customers throughout the Susquehanna Valley.

A subsidiary of CenterPoint Energy Inc. and NextEra US Gas Assets LLC, an affiliate of FPL Group Inc.

British oil explorer Heritage Oil is in talks to sell its Ugandan assets to Italian oil group Eni SpA for between $1.3-1.5 billion, a person familiar with the matter said today.

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Pat Farnelli says there's something in the water at her house. The last time she drank it, she says, she vomited four times.

People using mobile phones walk by a securities firm's electronic board indicating global stock prices in Tokyo.

The only art fair in the United States featuring works exclusively from Latin American artists is under way in New York and drawing artists, collectors and museum representatives from around the world to the PINTA art fair.

A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.

The Obama administration has delayed a decision on a request by Shell Oil Co. to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's rugged Chukchi Sea.

Consumer advocates say they're encouraged by state regulators' decision to allow Indiana utilities to reinstate heating assistance programs for the needy, but the next step is up to the utilities.

The owners of a Lexington ethanol plant and their insurer are suing a subsidiary of a Houston-based natural gas provider they say is responsible for an explosion and fire that shut down the plant for weeks.

Nissan unveiled its Leaf electric vehicle today at San Diego Gas & Electric's Kearny Mesa headquarters.